2. From Internet to Information Superhighway 10

3.  2001 Prentice Hall10.2 Chapter Outline The Internet: A Network of Networks Internet Applications: Communication and Connection Inside the World Wide Web The Evolving Internet “It’s a bit like climbing a mountain. You don’t know how far you’ve come until you stop and look back.” Vint Cerf

4.  2001 Prentice Hall10.3 The Internet: A Network of Networks The Internet is an interconnected network of thousands of networks linking academic, research, government, and commercial institutions.

5.  2001 Prentice Hall10.4 Internet Services The Internet provides scientists, engineers, educators, students, business people, and others with a variety of services such as: –Electronic mail (send/receive mail messages) –Remote login (Telnet - access to other computers

6.  2001 Prentice Hall10.5 Internet Services –Transferring files (FTP - accessing archives of data) –Newsgroups (Usenet - on-line public discussions) –World Wide Web (a collection of multimedia documents)

7.  2001 Prentice Hall10.6 Counting Connections Today, the Internet connects computers to about every country in the world. However, the Internet is: –growing too fast to measure its growth –too decentralized to quantify –a network with no hard boundaries

8.  2001 Prentice Hall10.7 Internet Protocols The language at the heart of the Internet is TCP/IP… Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol … that allows cross-network communication

9.  2001 Prentice Hall10.8 Internet Protocols –TCP breaks messages into packets Each packet has all the information needed to travel from network to network Host systems called Routers determine how to route transmissions

10.  2001 Prentice Hall10.9 Internet Protocols –IP is the address for the packets Each Internet host computer has a unique IP Address Each address is comprised of four sets of numbers separated by periods, such as 123.23.168.22

11.  2001 Prentice Hall10.10 Internet Access Options Direct (dedicated) Connection Computer has its own IP address and is attached to a LAN No need to dial up Files are stored on your computer Response time is quick

12.  2001 Prentice Hall10.11 Internet Access Options Dial-up Connections –limited connection using a modem –Full access dial up uses SLIP or PPP via modem Broadband Connections –DSL service is newer, faster, and cheaper than ISDN –can share phone line with voice traffic

13.  2001 Prentice Hall10.12 Internet Access Options Cable Modem Connection –allow Internet connections using shared TV cables –can exceed DSL speeds –Carry increased privacy and security risks Satellite Connections –provides connections using DirecTV satellite dishes

14.  2001 Prentice Hall10.13 Internet Access Options Internet Service Providers (ISPs) –local ISPs provide connections through local telephone lines –national ISPs offer connections on a nationwide scale

15.  2001 Prentice Hall10.14 Intranets and Extranets Intranets:self-contained intra- organizational networks designed using the same technology as the Internet Firewalls:used to prevent unauthorized communication and secure sensitive internal data

16.  2001 Prentice Hall10.15 Intranets and Extranets Typical Intranets include: –E-mail –Newsgroups –File transfer –Web publishing –Other services

17.  2001 Prentice Hall10.16 Intranets and Extranets Extranets:designed for outside use by customers, clients, and business partners Electronic Commerce:business transactions through electronic networks

18.  2001 Prentice Hall10.17 Intranets and Extranets Electronic data interchange (EDI): a decade-old set of specifications for ordering, billing, and paying for parts and services over private networks. Virtual private networks: not subject to the traffic and security problems.

19.  2001 Prentice Hall10.18 Internet Applications: Communication and Connection The user interface varies depending on which client/server application is being used. UNIX - developed by Bell Labs, allows a timesharing computer to communicate with several other computers or terminals at once.

20.  2001 Prentice Hall10.19 Internet Addresses E-mail addresses are made up of two parts separated by an at(@) sign: –User name@host name –Example: johnsmith@mindspring.com “ Each person on the “Internet” has a unique e-mail “address” created by having a squirrel run across a computer keyboard.” Dave Barry The host is named using DNS (domain name system), which translates IP addresses into a string of names.

21.  2001 Prentice Hall10.20 Internet Addresses An Internet address includes: username@hostname.sub.dom –username is the person’s “mailbox” –hostname is the name of the host computer and is followed by one or more domains separated by periods: host.subdomain.domain host.domain host.subdomain.subdomain.domain

22.  2001 Prentice Hall10.21 Internet Addresses Top level domains (the last part of the address) include: –. edu - educational sites –.com - commercial sites –.gov - government sites –.mil - military sites –.net - network administration sites –.org - nonprofit organizations

23.  2001 Prentice Hall10.22 Internet Addresses president@whitehouse.gov Examples: hazel_filbert@lane.k12.or.us User President whose mail is stored on the host whitehouse in the government domain User hazel_filbert at the server for Lane County, Oregon, k-12 school district

24.  2001 Prentice Hall10.23 E-mail on the Internet Why are free e-mail accounts made available? –often offered to attract Web site visitors –available for users of public computers –sensible for those wanting multiple e-mail addresses not associated with a workplace Remember that security is still an issue

25.  2001 Prentice Hall10.24 E-mail on the Internet E-mail Formats include: –ASCII text so they can be viewed with any client program –MIME that can be used to send and receive text with enriched text or HTML (displays text formatting, graphics, and links to Web pages)

26.  2001 Prentice Hall10.25 Mailing Lists and Network News Mailing lists allow you to participate in email discussion groups on special- interest topics. Network News are public discussions that you can go in and out as you please. –Messages are posted on virtual bulletin boards (for everyone to read).

27.  2001 Prentice Hall10.26 Real-Time Communication Internet relay chat (IRC) allows several users to chat simultaneously Internet Telephony turns the Internet into a toll-free long- distance telephone service Video teleconferences allow multi- person videoconferences via the Web

28.  2001 Prentice Hall10.27 Telnet and FTP Information gathering (the most popular use of the Internet) Telnet –makes remote login possible FTP (file transfer protocol) –allows files to be uploaded and downloaded from remote computers

29.  2001 Prentice Hall10.28 Telnet and FTP Web browsers locate and transfer files without typing commands A friendlier face… When you click a Web link to download a file, you’re probably using FTP

30.  2001 Prentice Hall10.29 Inside the World Wide Web WWW is a distributed browsing and searching system developed at CERN System was designed to give Internet documents unique addresses HTML language was created for encoding and displaying documents Browser software was built for viewing documents from remote locations

31.  2001 Prentice Hall10.30 Browsing the Web Web pages are made up of text and images A Web site is a collection of web pages Web site Jargon: A Home page is the main entry to a Web site A Web browser like Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer allows you to explore the Web by clicking links

32.  2001 Prentice Hall10.31 Browsing the Web Hyperlinks (links) are words or pictures that act as buttons, allowing you to go to another Web page Links are typically underlined or displayed in a different color

33.  2001 Prentice Hall10.32 More on Browsing the Web Links allow you to locate information without knowing its exact location (it may move from time to time) More Web site Jargon Back and Forward buttons let you retrace your steps Bookmarks (or Favorites) can be set up to mark your favorite Web locations

34.  2001 Prentice Hall10.33 Web Addresses Go directly to any Web destination by typing its URL (Uniform Resource Locator) A typical URL looks like this: http://www.prenhall.com.beekman

35.  2001 Prentice Hall10.34 Web Addresses The protocol used to transfer Web pages across the Net Dissecting the address http:// www.vote-smart.org/ The domain name of the server containing the resource help/database.html The path to the resource on the host that contains the information

36.  2001 Prentice Hall10.35 Searching the Web Search engines –produce a list of pages that match a keyword –they are built around a database that catalogs Web locations based on content Directory or Subject Tree –A hierarchical catalog of Web sites Natural Language Search Engines –Allows users to ask for what they want Ways to search the Web

37.  2001 Prentice Hall10.36 Search Engines Search engines help find information when you type a query using keywords.

38.  2001 Prentice Hall10.37 Search Engines Directory/subject tree engines offer a menu of subject choices

39.  2001 Prentice Hall10.38 Search Engines Ask questions in a Natural Language Search Engine

40.  2001 Prentice Hall10.39 Portals Portals offer quick and easy access to a variety of services such as e-mail, chat,maps, news, shopping, etc. Examples of consumer portals include –Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos, Alta Vista, Netscape Netcenter, Snap Specialized portals target specific industries and economic sectors

41.  2001 Prentice Hall10.40 From Hypertext to Multimedia Tables Frames Forms Downloadable audio and video Streaming audio and video Real-time live audio or video 3-D environments Typical Web pages can contain:

42.  2001 Prentice Hall10.41 From Hypertext to Multimedia Plug-Ins are software extensions that add new features. Examples include… QuickTime Shockwave/Flash RealPlayer Acrobat

43.  2001 Prentice Hall10.42 Webcasting: Push Technology Client computers pull information –Browsers initiate a request for information Push technology delivers information automatically to the client computer –Up to the minute weather reports –News headlines

44.  2001 Prentice Hall10.43 Publishing on the Web An HTML document includes codes that determines the format, layout, and structure of a Web document HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) HTML is not WYSIWYG

45.  2001 Prentice Hall10.44 Publishing on the Web This text coded as HTML … Welcome to Computer Confluence Publishing on the Web Appears like this on the screen …

46.  2001 Prentice Hall10.45 Publishing on the Web Programs that convert document format features into HTML codes –Microsoft Word, FileMaker Web authoring programs –HomePage, GoLive, FrontPage Alternatives to HTML…

47.  2001 Prentice Hall10.46 Beyond HTML Dynamic HTML: adds more programming power to HTML by allowing code to automatically modify itself under certain circumstances JavaScript: a simple language for enhancing HTML Web pages

48.  2001 Prentice Hall10.47 Beyond HTML XML : Will replace HTML plus provide additional features and extensions VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language creates 3-D virtual worlds WML: Wireless Markup Language helps create Web documents containing stock quotes, phone numbers, and other small nuggets of information

49.  2001 Prentice Hall10.48 Beyond HTML Java: A full-featured, cross platform, object-oriented programming language Java applets: Small Java programs that can be automatically downloaded onto your client computer and can run on any platform

50.  2001 Prentice Hall10.49 The Evolving Internet provides faster network communications for universities and research institutions virtual laboratories, digital libraries, and distance learning applications are being built on Internet 2 Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet

51.  2001 Prentice Hall10.50 Internet Issues Filtering software can prevent unwanted and inappropriate content Encryption prevents credit card and e- mail forgery Digital cash makes on-line transactions safer Universal access is a problem Ethical and Political Dilemmas

52.  2001 Prentice Hall10.51 Internet Everywhere: The Invisible Information A blurring of Web and interpersonal communication applications Internet appliances connected to the Web Continued computer crime and security issues What Next? Electronic Frontier